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		<title>The Big Frill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adventures in Offal, Part I For some time now I&#8217;ve been thinking the origins and illogic about my squeamishness about offal. This was prompted by my coming across a rather wonderful essay titled &#8216;Picky Eating is a Moral Failing&#8217;, by Matthew J Brown, in this book, Food and Philosophy. Brown&#8217;s essay elegantly articulates the frustrations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=2236&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I need your help with fictional food</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a little quest, and I think all my beloved shuckers are just the folk to help me. I need to compile a list of novels in which food and cookery is central &#8211; can be any genre, any era, just so long as food is somehow inextricably linked to the story and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1896&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to make a vegetarian smile, pt I</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2010/09/15/how-to-make-a-vegetarian-smile-pt-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I happened to be travelling for a week in the company of two vegetarians, and was shocked by the severely limited options they had in restaurants. In South Australia, a state famed for its quality gourmet produce (Maggie Beer and Gay Bilson live there, for godsake!), my companions were constantly given the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1841&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four-letter word, and it&#8217;s not &#8216;food&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2010/01/12/four-letter-word-and-its-not-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am indebted to my friend Eileen for alerting me to this nugget of gold from The New Yorker&#8217;s Shouts &#38; Murmurs: The Cursing Mommy Cooks Italian. Perfect antidote for a crap day in the kitchen (or the marriage!) &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1512&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living in the seventies: Fondue, baby!</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/11/29/living-in-the-seventies-fondue-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of fondue arose recently, as it does now and then among friends when drink has been taken. Everyone in the room recalled their parents&#8217; fondue set and its occasional outings along with the funky pantsuits and false eyelashes of yore. But there was general disagreement about what fondue actually involved &#8211; some purists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1412&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kitchen calamity</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/08/28/kitchen-calamity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it doesn&#8217;t happen very often, but it did last night. I cooked a Truly Revolting meal for my beau and myself. It was supposed to be a lovely rich dahl and a dish of potatoes and peas in a yoghurt sauce, but let&#8217;s just be frank and call it vomit-coloured slop (and thanks to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1167&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michael on Julia&#8217;s legacy</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/08/04/michael-on-julias-legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone in Australia understand the Julia Child adoration thing, or is this purely an American phenomenon? I have known virtually nothing about her except her name &#8211; but in the New York Times this week  is a long and lovely essay by the wonderful Michael Pollan about Julia Child, the first American TV chef, prompted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1077&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moore fictional food from Lorrie</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/06/20/moore-fictional-food-from-lorrie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another taste of food-in-fiction from the superlative Lorrie Moore, still from this old collection Like Life. This from a story called Joy, where Jane works in a midwestern shopping mall, in a cheese shop called Swedish Isle. Her job is to proffer samples of cheese spreads and dips on crackers out in front of the shop. She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=645&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rice is (gulp) nice?</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/06/09/rice-is-gulp-nice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Empress  and her Three-of-a-Kind column today made me gag, I&#8217;m afraid. I&#8217;m sure all of you will love it, but childhood memory makes me distinctly bilious at the mention of rice pudding. If it weren&#8217;t for this (literally) gut-level aversion of mine, Steph&#8217;s column would be interesting for the cultural combo of what different folks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=758&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When your fingers do the baulking</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/05/26/when-your-fingers-do-the-baulking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 23:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Note to party caterers: when finger food can&#8217;t be eaten with the fingers, it&#8217;s not finger food.   Very enjoyable couple of hours at the A&#38;U publishing party the other night, at which NSW Premier Nathan Rees gave a short and very welcome speech about his support for territorial copyright and opposition to parallel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=604&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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